Venafi Leadership

Sandeep Singh Kohli is an accomplished and modern marketing leader with over 25 years of experience in building high performing teams. As Venafi’s Chief Marketing Officer, Sandeep is responsible for all global marketing initiatives for the company.

Prior to joining Venafi, Sandeep led worldwide marketing at Kong, where he set up and scaled the company’s marketing program from early stage to hyper growth. Prior to Kong, he led global horizontal and platform marketing at MuleSoft through its successful IPO. Sandeep has also held leadership roles at Piston Cloud, Brocade, Cisco Systems, Nortel and Lucent.

Sandeep holds an MBA degree with Honors from UC Berkeley, with a specialization in marketing and strategy, and an Engineering degree with Honors from Bombay University.

Francois leads the global finance organization, and he is putting a wealth of experience to work to help drive Venafi’s growth and development as the world’s leading protector of machine identities for the Global 5000.

Francois has spent his career in the finance organizations of the world’s top growth technology companies. Before joining Venafi, he was CFO of Trimble Navigation, CFO of global business units at VMware, vice president of finance at Google and director of finance at Apple. He also held senior positions at Business Objects and Hyperion

Francois holds a master’s degree in engineering from Institut Catholique d’Arts et Metiers (ICAM) in France and an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.

As Chief Legal and People Officer, Melissa is responsible for all legal affairs for the company as well as the global people strategy that propels Venafi’s team performance and vibrant company culture. Melissa is deeply committed to sustaining Venafi’s special culture and building collaborative partnerships cross functionally to drive success of the Venafi team and its customers, partners, suppliers and other stakeholders.

Melissa brings to Venafi 20 plus years of technology and software industry experience. She has worked with the largest companies in the world as well as federal and state government entities in multiple capacities. Prior to joining Venafi, Melissa held roles of increasing responsibility at Raytheon, RSA Security, and Fox Technologies, where she provided leadership in areas of legal operations, contracts management, professional and customer services, and sales

Peter is responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and product architecture, working closely with product management and engineering. Actively involved in standards bodies on behalf of Venafi, he is a voting member of the Oasis Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) technical committee.

Peter brings more than 17 years of award-winning enterprise software engineering experience to Venafi. Prior to joining the company, he was the lead UI architect for the Mono open source project and chief architect for both the Secure Identity Management (SIM) and Collaboration Services at Novell.

Peter began his career at Siemens-Nixdorf AG in Augsburg, Germany. He holds two U.S. patents and has a third pending.

Cathy is the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Recorded Future. She has been a leader in the human resources field for more than 20 years. At Domo she oversees the recruitment, retention and management of some of the top talent in the industry; and she frequently points to the company's Cake Day as her secret to employee satisfaction. Prior to joining Domo, Cathy served as vice president of human resources at Extend Health, a technology-driven healthcare insurance exchange. She also worked for Omniture, where she expanded hiring into 20+ countries and 28 U.S. states, growing the employee headcount from 87 to 1,100+ in just five years.